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NASA’S STUNNING BREAKTHROUGH: Its First Warp Drive…Is a TRUE Mindblower!

NASA’S STUNNING BREAKTHROUGH: Its First Warp Drive…Is a TRUE Mindblower!

A few months ago, physicist Harold White shocked the
aeronautics industry when he announced that his team at NASA was in the process
of developing a faster-than-light warp drive. His design could one day
transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks.

The idea originally came to White while he was considering
an equation formulated by physicist Miguel Alcubierre in his 1994 paper titled,
“The Warp Drive: Hyper-Fast Travel Within General Relativity. Alcubierre
suggested a mechanism by which space-time could be “warped” and behind a
spacecraft.

Michio Kaku dubbed Alcubierre’s theory a “passport to the
universe,” which harnesses a quirk in the “cosmological code” that allows for
the expansion and contraction of space-time. If proven true, it could allow for
hyper-fast travel between interstellar destinations. In order to accomplish
this, the starship would need able to expand the space behind it rapidly to
push it forward. For passengers, it would look like a lack of acceleration.

White believes a drive like that could result in “speeds”
that could take us to Alpha Centauri in just a matter of weeks, even though the
system is only 4.3 light-years away. Essentially, a bubble would be created
that moves space-time around the object, repositioning it.

“Remember, nothing locally exceeds the speed of light, but
space can expand and contract at any speed,” White told reporters at io9.
“However, space-time is really stiff to create the expansion and contraction
effect in a useful manner in order for us to reach interstellar destinations in
reasonable time periods would require a lot of energy.”

However,” White added, “based on the analysis I did in the
last 18 months, there may be hope.”

“My early results suggested I had discovered something that
was in the math all along,” he recalled. “I suddenly realized that if you made
the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring larger — like shifting from a
belt shape to a donut shape — and oscillate the warp bubble, you can greatly
reduce the energy required — perhaps making the idea plausible.”

The next step for White will be a proof-of-concept. His team
are in the lab and working on actual experiments to make that a reality.

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